Excerpts from Mathijs Kwik's message of Thu Feb 09 08:47:39 +0100 2012:
> Nope, that would switch to the main profile (the lean one), dropping
> out of x11 and such, when I'm currently in the "desktop" child.
> So I do need to just nixos-rebuild boot, then switch to new profile's
> child manually.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:47:39 +0100, Mathijs Kwik
> wrote:
>> But that works for now.
>>
>> Now I must find a nice workflow on top of it, but the possibility
>> itself is very nice :)
>
> It would be great if you could distill it into a sh
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:47:39 +0100, Mathijs Kwik
wrote:
> But that works for now.
>
> Now I must find a nice workflow on top of it, but the possibility
> itself is very nice :)
It would be great if you could distill it into a short wiki entry.
Looking forward to play with that myself.
--
Flori
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Michael Raskin <7c6f4...@mail.ru> wrote:
>>> What you should consider is using /nix/var/nix/profiles/system-*-link
>>> If I remember correctly, it is not affected by switches.
>>Cool, indeed, that's a better entry point than /var/nix/current-system.
>>I can now list
>> What you should consider is using /nix/var/nix/profiles/system-*-link
>> If I remember correctly, it is not affected by switches.
>Cool, indeed, that's a better entry point than /var/nix/current-system.
>I can now list and switch child profiles easily.
So it is not afected. Nice to know, thanks
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Michael Raskin <7c6f4...@mail.ru> wrote:
>>What I would like:
>>- Give child-profiles some link back to their parent. If a real link
>>would give cyclic dependency issues, a text file with just the store
>>path is probably enough too.
>
> Unfortunately, this still me
>What I would like:
>- Give child-profiles some link back to their parent. If a real link
>would give cyclic dependency issues, a text file with just the store
>path is probably enough too.
Unfortunately, this still means circular dependency. Store paths
mentioned inside store elements always mea
